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Ok, this is just to kick off discussion, since this thread might languish otherwise, for the lack of ideas floating around.

I've got two plot bunnies running in my head right now, both revolving around possible crossovers.

The first is a more serious consideration, but one probably quite fit for Kirito, considering that he's one of the most competent LN protagonist out there. It's a Muv Luv crossover, which I will put in spoiler tags, for those who haven't yet spoiled themselves of Muv Luv.

Spoiler for Spoilers for Muv Luv:

What if one day, Kirito wakes up in the world of Muv Luv - Unlimited, in Takeru's place? Now, I think he would definitely fare much better than Unlimited Takeru did, but I'd imagine he'd suspect he has been somehow placed in a VR RPG or VR Light Novel.

Spoiler for Spoiler for Alternative:

Worst still, Alternative IV is in place. Indeed, Asuna woke up in the world of Muv Luv as Sumika six months before Sumika's capture. Would she have fared better than Sumika, or would she definitely share the same fate?

This happens some years after ALO - perhaps around the time where Acclitization would have happened instead. I wonder how much more different the Muv Luv plot would be if Kirito and Asuna were the main couples.

The second crossover idea is a potentially more disturbing one, also set at the same time.

A Lolipop Chainsaw Crossover.

Asuna wakes up in Julia Scarlet's body, in a VR Version of the Lollipop Chainsaw game. Kirito wakes up in Nick's body. Can Kirito avoid Zombification? How would both of them react to Sensei? If Kirito is zombified, what if the game hijacks Asuna's body, and forces her avatar to behead Kirito and put him in the same position as Nick was for the entire game? What would both of them think of the entire game?

This is partly inspired by the costumes add ons for Lollipop Chainsaw, where avatars from other animes like Kore Wa Zombie or High School of the Dead replaced the default avatar.

Edit: My bad about mixing the names up. One error seemed to have led to a huge chain of errors.

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They could make it to that the NeverGear and the HUD they all carry around were both developed in Academy City (future tech and all that), then released it to the wider world. It's pretty much as easy as that. Also, the Espers could use their abilities in game through either interference in the games design from the outside or the fact that their abilities are calculated in their brains in the first place.

It's a pity the timelines don't quite merge, because a crossover between SAO and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is just begging to be made.

"Togusa. Why does Kayaba sound like you?"

"...Major, I honestly have no idea."

"Major, there's no way Togusa coulda pulled any of this off. He isn't a Wizard-class hacker like you, afterall."

"Thanks a lot, Ishikawa."

That said, the verses are just completely explicitly different - cyberbrains were already in wide usage in the early 2020s in GitS, and the world of SAO is very close to ours, so it's a fun idea, but one that can't really progress further.

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I've fed a variety of names from various animes to see how they'd fare, as inspiration for a crossover.

Now, some are nonsensical, such as

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Alucard is stuck in SAO. Level: 71. Dies 3 days in while killing mobs.

But there were two very interesting results, that gave me an inspiration for a K-on SAO cross-over, where Ui and Yui Hirasawa find themselves trapped in Aincrad.

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Yui Hirasawa is stuck in SAO. Level: 71. Survives till the end of the game!

And I think that if there's anything that can make Yui really grow up, it'll be surviving SAO at a high level.

Especially after:

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Ui Hirasawa is stuck in SAO. Level: 52. Dies 9 months in after falling off a cliff.

Which has very, very interesting potential for Drama there. Losing her sister would be a major character developing event. For the first 9 months, Yui would be her normal, ditzy self, until Ui Hirasawa dies to save Yui.

There's a potential rich gold mine of crossover inspiration here.

P.s: Here's to hoping this thread takes off. Part of the reason why the Nanoha fanfic thread is so popular is because alot of fanfics are put up there, sometimes even before being put up on FF.net.

But there were two very interesting results, that gave me an inspiration for a K-on SAO cross-over, where Ui and Yui Hirasawa find themselves trapped in Aincrad.

And I think that if there's anything that can make Yui really grow up, it'll be surviving SAO at a high level.

Especially after:

Which has very, very interesting potential for Drama there. Losing her sister would be a major character developing event. For the first 9 months, Yui would be her normal, ditzy self, until Ui Hirasawa dies to save Yui.

There's a potential rich gold mine of crossover inspiration here.

i'd agree on that, would truly be an interesting thing to see.

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P.s: Here's to hoping this thread takes off. Part of the reason why the Nanoha fanfic thread is so popular is because alot of fanfics are put up there, sometimes even before being put up on FF.net.

No, it's because FFT is all on yuriyuriyurilovelovenanofateyuri no guys allowed, Satashi is quuen of FFT. What little fanfic discussion that DOES go on tends to be buried by all the NanoFate legion's shilling.

To put things into perspective, i wrote a short and posted it into FFT where Fate killed Nanoha, and was in the process of skinning her to wear her skin and be with her forever. The most common reaction was that i had written a touching loving story.

That said there are SOME diamonds in the rough. Just that they're hard to find.

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Whoa. That sounds good. Yui, from silly airhead to grownup survivor after the death of her sister.

I'd imagine Yui would mimic Ui in many ways, after losing Ui. Though such a loss may well result in a Heroic BSOD for the next month. A grownup survivor would probably be alot more like Ui, though I'd imagine beyond that Ui imitation public shell is a girl suppressing her ditzy, upbeat nature.

Though I'm wondering how such a plot would go. Perhaps Yui joins Kirito's harem? Though of course, Asuna is the lead girl. In-fact, Asuna might have rescued Yui after Yui's suicidal funk, which might make for an interesting dynamics. Indeed, perhaps Yui and Kirito's relationship remains very platonic, connected through Asuna.

Even then, this fic could well extend way beyond the Aincrad arc. An Ui like, mature and reliable character who has a childishly silly side in private, that one have to dig out hard.

The zeroeth phase is the loyalty and strength of relationships between siblings, and how Ui keeps things together for both of them in the aftermath of being trapped in Aincrad. After the initial shock, comes the lull, and both of them replicate their roles back in the real world in Aincrad. The interesting thing, I think is that K-on never forced Yui to make difficult decisions, or to start questioning herself. We've not seen Yui in a life or death situation, so I wonder whether being put in one on a daily basis would affect Yui's airheadedness, if Ui was around to shelter her.

I think Ui would go very far to keep up Yui's ditzy, reliant nature, unfortunately. However, that might be tricky to pull off. Still, I'd expect there'd be gradual shifts, though Yui's internal monologues might be quite hard to explore, since K-on doesn't give too much insight into why Yui is such an airhead (beyond Moe Fanservice). One way of course, is to skip towards the end of the nine months, but show traces that Yui does comprehend, a little about how serious the situation is.

The first phase then will be deconstruction on why being a Ditzy Airhead in Aincrad is a bad idea, and how it eventually get's her sister killed.

The second phase is that of grief and coping, where Yui adopts her sister's mannerisms while privately wrestling with her guilt.

The third phase is reconstruction, where after Aincrad, Yui finds a means of reconcilliating between her old, silly self, and the Ui-like persona she constructed to cope with the loss of her sister.

The challenge is character exploration. It'd probably require quite abit of thought, though I guess a little OOCness is permissible since we've never seen how Yui would be like in a difficult situation of that level (as oppose to the lesser, mild challenges K-on gives), since K-on never truly throws her into one. What I think though is that Yui can rise to the occasion, when need be, as seen in K-on.

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To put things into perspective, i wrote a short and posted it into FFT where Fate killed Nanoha, and was in the process of skinning her to wear her skin and be with her forever. The most common reaction was that i had written a touching loving story.

Are you serious? Well, I was planning an Erio X Caro fic, with Lutecia in it, but I'd imagine there'll be legions of Yuri fans demanding Yuri, and Erio to be made the third wheel.

Ahem. A little off-topic.

But the interesting thing about SAO is the kinds of character development one can squeeze from a character when you put him or her in the death game scenario of SAO. I'd say the strongest crossovers would be the ones that take, say a fairly immature (but not stupid) character from a Slice of Life or lighter genre, and make him or her survive the death game.

Actually, I'm thinking of a character closer to KYH in some aspects. Not exactly, but giving off similar vibes, and less socially confident, but not necessarily... politically incompetent.

The problem is, Asuna's brother might not suicidal - so Aria plays out differently. Furthermore, I suspect Kiriko may adopt a male avatar at the beginning- so that opening scene with Klein might be very interesting- since, well, Kiriko's a girl, in a girl starved prison full of men.

I wonder, will Kiriko solo? Or perhaps Asuna's brother insists he tags along with Kiriko after Aria- perhaps after Kiriko successfully saved his life thrice in a single day, or perhaps both save each others life once each during Aria. Once when Kiriko got mauled by the boss, and Asuna's brother rallied everyone. Once in the dungeon, when Asuna's brother accidentally pulled too many mobs to handle, and Kiriko bailed him out.

I can see ALO being just slightly different, but it would be a highly devoted girl in love rescuing a "prince" like figure, and I think Kiriko would lampshade that. A delicious gender reversal. Also, Oberon's capture of Asuna's Brother would have even grimmer implications. Once he decides to execute Asuna's brother, nothing is stopping him from inheriting RETCO.

I'm considering changing GGO Sinon to a male. Then again, a female figure may work. But everything post ALO may easily feel like the adventures of the 4-koma, Female-friendship Slice of Life genre with a semi-cyberpunkish near future Sci-fi twist. Which might be interesting- I've not seen a female friendship genre show (Like K-on, Yuru Yuri and Natsuro Kiseki) set in the near future.

Instead of Kirito and his harem, we'd get Kiriko and her close cadre of female friends. Also, I think Kiriko may well find it easier to marry Asuna's brother, especially if I follow the interpretation that Kiriko is every bit as talented as Kayaba- and indeed, is a Kayaba talented figure born 10 years younger.

Hmm, could Kiriko be the "mad young inventor" female figure exemplified by the likes of Rika from Hagani? Think Rika, though more evenheaded, cooler, taller, far, far less perverse.

I'm also thinking of how Mother's Rosario may work. I do think Yuuki may have eventually resorted to asking Kiriko, since Asuna's brother likely won't have that kind of time. I also suspect Kiriko would form a very close friendship with non SAO Asuna all the same, maybe over the events leading up to this alternate ALO. Would Kyouko (Asuna's mother) still disapprove of Kiriko?

Yui is another issue to consider. RECTO's possible future CEO now has his hands on the world's first functioning A.I. I think the first introduction Kiriko has to RECTO would be working with Asuna's brother (using an internship as an excuse) to find ways to store and help Yui interact with the outside world. It may be there that Kiriko proves herself. Considering that the technologies involved in mastering techniques for manifesting A.Is in the real world may one day prove very, very profitable....

And at age 22, after earning her first PHD, Kiriko ties the knot with Asuna's brother. The White Prince and the Black Queen of Dual Blades And there will be ugly rumors about how she climbed so fast in RETCO....